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India, Thailand, Myanmar to
launch highway project

V Mohan Narayan in Yangon

India, Thailand and Myanmar on Saturday agreed to launch a trilateral highway project linking the countries with New Delhi.

Addressing the first-ever trilateral meeting along with Foreign Minister of Thailand Surakiart Sathirathai and his counterpart from Myanmar, U Win Aung, External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh said the road network connecting the three countries would become a "highway of opportunity."

"This trilateral project is in keeping with the inexorable process of our times. Distance and time are rapidly shrinking. We cannot afford to sit still," Singh said.

"Let it facilitate not just the movement of goods and services but also ideas. Let it enrich the unbroken cultural continuity and ethos that our three countries share. Let us jointly begin the process of weaving our part of Asia together, through multi-modal infrastructural links," he said.

PTI

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